About the Journal

Publication schedule

Journal is published twice a year. Accepted manuscripts are available as on-line first papers immediately before being assigned to one of the issues. 

Publisher

ETYKA is published by Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw.

The Academic Board of Etyka

Chairperson: Joanna Górnicka-Kalinowska, Uniwersytet Warszawski (Poland)

Members:
Nigel Dower, University of Aberdeen (Great Britain)
Włodzimierz Galewicz, Uniwersytet Jagielloński (Poland)
Jerzy Gałkowski, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski (Poland)
Róbert H. Haraldsson, University of Iceland (Iceland)
Agnieszka Marie Jaworska, Center for Ethics, University of California, Riverside (USA)
Andrzej M. Kaniowski, Uniwersytet Łódzki (Poland)
Ryszard Kleszcz, Uniwersytet Łódzki (Poland)
Miłowit Kuniński, Uniwersytet Jagielloński (Poland)
Joanna Nowicki, Professeur des universités à l’UCP (Université de Cergy-Pontoise); Sciences Po Saint Germain-en-Laye (France)
Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University, London School of Economics (Great Britain)
Joanna Regulska, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (USA)
John Skorupski, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, School of Philosophical and Anthropological Studies, University of St Andrews (Great Britain)
Zbigniew Szawarski, Uniwersytet Warszawski (Poland)
Andrzej Szostek, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski (Poland)

Aims and scope

Academic journal publishing articles on theoretical ethics, metaethics, applied ethics, history of ethics and ethical ideas, sociology of morals, moral psychology, ethics education, and reviews of publications from the field. We pay particular attention to originality, clarity and integrity of the published materials.

Peer-review

  1. Articles submitted to ETYKA for publication are subject to initial qualification by the Editors (the volume editor or thematic editor).
  2. The texts are assessed only and exclusively in view of their content and language correctness. The ethnic or social origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality and political views of the Authors do not impact the assessment.
  3. Articles initially qualified for publication are evaluated by two external reviewers, who do not know the identity of the Authors of works under assessment. The identity of reviewers is also not revealed to the Authors. ("double-blind review").
  4. In case of doubts, the Editorial Team can send the work to additional reviewers.
  5. On the basis of the reviews, the Editors decide whether to reject our accept the article for publication.
  6. The Editors can decide to publish the article under the condition that the Author introduces all or a part of the corrections suggested by the reviewers. If the Author does not include some of the reviewers' suggestions in the final text, they should explain to the Editors the reasons why they chose not to do so.
  7. When making the decision of accepting articles for publication, the following aspects are particularly important: importance of the topic, originality of the proposed solution to the problem discussed, logical correctness of argumentation, clarity of theses, knowledge and manner of application of the existing reference literature, whether their empirical theses are well grounded and their language correct.

Copyright

Works published in ETYKA will be made available with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0), which entails acknowledgement of authorship. Under this licence, Authors keep their copyrights and agree that their works can be used again legally for any purpose, including commercial ones, without the need to obtain previous consent of the Author or publisher. The articles can be downloaded, printed, copied and disseminated; under the condition that the authorship is indicated accordingly, together with the place of original publication. The Authors preserve their copyrights to the above-mentioned works without any limitation whatsoever. Detailed information about the CC BY 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

Open Access

The ETYKA Journal would like to provide everyone with access to knowledge, making use of the potential of modern technologies and taking into account the benefits of such approach for both scientists and society in general. Therefore, we apply the policy of open access to scientific publications. We believe that cooperation between researchers in the spirit of open science is one of the pillars of inclusive, democratic society. Works published in ETYKA are made available with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0), which entails acknowledgement of authorship. Under this licence, Authors keep their copyrights and agree that their works can be used again legally for any purpose, including commercial ones, without the need to obtain previous consent of the Author or publisher. The articles can be downloaded, printed, copied and disseminated; under the condition that the authorship is indicated accordingly, together with the place of original publication. The Authors preserve their copyrights to the above-mentioned works without any limitation whatsoever. Detailed information about the CC BY 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

We do not charge any fees from authors or readers.